Osu,
Alguém conhece mais alguma coisa acerca desta verdadeira origem deste Kata? Sabe-se que tem origem no Lohan Quan e que Mas Oyama a trouxe do tempo em que viveu em Okinawa… é muitÃssimo pouco conhecida, mesmo entre o Karate Kyokushin e chamaram-lhe Seipaite (18 Mãos).
Agradeço os contributos,
Osu!
Osu!
Comentários desagradáveis de alguns colegas à parte…infelizmente não irei responder “à letra†a essas crÃticas subjetivas, pois não me está permitido eticamente fazê-lo enquanto Budoka, dizia a esse propósito o Mestre Oyama: “O caminho das artes marciais é universal e todos os desejos egoÃstas devem ser temperados pelo fogo purificador do treino rigorosoâ€.
De qualquer das formas, aqui vai algo mais sobre este Kata em inglês:
The 18 Hands of Kyokushin Karate.
Qinghai - Tibet Plateau (Old kyokushin kata demonstration of Lohan Quan)
Originally a Chinese kata. It was brought to Okinawa Sosai Oyama when he lived in Okinawa and he toke over this kata to kyokushin. He changes this kata in kyokushin Oyama version.
They are comparatively other eighteen hands katas (Tensho) (Yantsu) (Saifa)
(Seipai) is the Okinawan pronunciation of the kanji characters for 18 (pronounced Ju Hachi in Japanese). In other karate styles, this kata is sometimes called Seipaite, or eighteen hands. The number 18 is derived from the Buddhist concept of 6 x 3, where six represents color, voice, taste, smell, touch and justice and three represents good, bad and peace. The name translates to the number 18, where 18 is 3x6 which have significances in Buddhism.
The 18 hands of Wing Chun and Karate
1-Huen Sau - Shuto
2-Tan Sau - Haito ouchi uke
3-Lap Sau - Hiraken shuto uchi ouke
4-Pak Sau - Haito soto uke
5-Gum Sau - Hito gedan barai
6-Lan Sau - Shuto jodan uke
7-Bong Sau - Shuto koto uke
8-Bil Sau - Shuto ouchi uke
9-Tok Sau - Shotei jodan uke
10-Kwun Sau - Shuto mawashi morote juji uke
11-Huen Sau - Shuto gedan barai
12-Wu Sau - Shuto mawashi uke
13-Fook Sau - Shuto koto gedan barai
14-Jum Sau - Shuto koto uke
15-Jut Sau - Haito morote shuto uke
16-Tie Sau - Koken jodan uke
17-Jip Sau - one Hand with (Hiraken jodan uke) other Hand Shuto haito soto uke)
18-Man Sau - Shuto tettsui jodan uke
Other Buddhist symbols within Karate include the term karate itself, the character kara can also be read as ku, which originates from sunya, positioning at the beginning of kata resembles the hand position of zazen, and custom of the bow upon entering and leaving the dojo and meeting the sensei, as is done in Buddhist temples and Zen dojo
Weapons of the Body Hands and Arms
Empi Elbow
Haisho Backhand
Haito Inner knife hand
Hiji Elbow
Hiraken Flat fist
Hitosashiyubi Forefinger
Ippon-Ken Knuckle Fist
Ippon Nukite Single Finger Spearhand
Keiko Chicken Beak Hand
Kobusi Fist
Koken Wrist Top
Kote Forearm
Nakayubi Middle Finger
Ippon-Ken Kunckle Fist
Nihon-Ken Two Knuckle Fist
Nihon Nukite Two Finger Spearhead
Nukite Spearhead Oyayubi
Ippon-Ken Thumb Knuckle Fist
Ryuto-Ken Dragon's Head
Fist Seiken Forefist
Shotei Palm Heel
Shuto Knife Hand
Tettsui Bottom Fist
Toho Sword Peak Hand
Uraken Back fist
The 18 Hands is a set of qigong exercises attributed to the Very Venerable Bodhidharma. Legend has it that he found the monks of the Shaolin Temple too weak for the rigours of spiritual cultivation and so taught them a set of qigong exercises that became known as the 18 Lohan Hands.
18 -- Because there are 18 qigong exercises in the set
Lohan -- followers of the Buddha Siddhartha Guatama (18 of which were specially honoured when Buddhism spread from India to China)
These qigong exercises enabled the monks to develop strong healthy bodies and minds and allowed them to progress more successfully with their spiritual cultivation.